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The New Oriental Sounds
Discover the alternative oriental music scene in the Arab countries with bands from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine & Egypt. Classical oriental, oriental jazz, fusion, rap: each CD is the unique expression of an artist or a band's personality. Yet they all have one thing in common: they breathe with our middle-eastern culture.
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André Msane

Souffle D'Orient

Classical Oriental | Lebanon | 2004

André Msane is a highly versatile oud player, equally at ease with modal improvisations ("Taqâsîm"), Lebanese song, Arabic popular music and the hymns of the great Syriac tradition.

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Bassem Rizk

Echoes From a Past

Classical Oriental | Lebanon | 2004

Bassem Rizk is a talented Lebanese oud player.

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Dima Orsho & Gazwan Zerikly

Arabic Lieder

Classical | Syria | 2008

The innovative project “Arabic Lieder” features Dima Orsho & Gazwan Zerikly performing Arabic poetry put to music, as well as some solo piano pieces.

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Eftekasat

Mouled Sidi El-Latini

Oriental Jazz | Egypt | 2006

Eftekasat is one of the most active and well-established Egyptian independent music groups.

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El Dor El Awal

Qarar Izala

Oriental Jazz | Egypt | 2006

When a group of seven young, talented, and highly inventive musicians get together to rehearse daily for six months on the first floor of a derelict building, the end result is ‘Qarar Izala’, the

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Fathy Salama

Sultany

Oriental Jazz | Egypt | 2006

Sultany compiles the best of Sharkiat, the oriental band of Grammy & BBC awards winner Fathy Salama.

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Hewar

9 Days of Solitude, The Damascus Session

Oriental Jazz | Syria | 2007

The musicians of the group Hewar, who pursue their careers in different continents, have taken “9 days of solitude” off their busy schedules to record this new piece of work, thus pursuing their m

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Hewar

Hewar

Oriental Jazz | Syria | 2005

This is the first album by one of Syria’s most popular instrumental bands.

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Itar Shameh

Baitna

Rock | Syria | 2007

The long awaited album by vocalist Rasha Rizk and her husband, composer and guitarist Ibrahim Suleimani, finally came out in 2007.

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Katibeh Khamseh

Ahla Fik Bil Moukhayyamat‏

Rap | Palestine | 2008

These newcomers on the Lebanese rap scene hail in actual fact from Palestine, but have spent their young existence in the refugee camps of Borj el Barajneh.

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